This is a very slick Flash port of the original Super Mario Bros. but, like with Mega Man, there’s a character-select screen on each level. You can play as Mario, Samus, Bill R., Mega Man, Link or the dude from Castlevania (I think). Best part is that the theme music from the game from which your character comes plays during gameplay.

This is a truly riveting and compelling statistics presentation about the changes the world’ population has seen in the last 50 years. Presented at TED by Hans Rosling, Swedish statistics guru.
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The Natural History Museum pissed off a lot of kids during the early days of the whole “Pluto is not a planet” debacle in 2000. Here is a selection of the virulent hate mail they received in response to this injustice. (Kottke, via @thoughtbrain.)
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The CDC has an interactive map that allows one to map all sorts of death rates by all sorts of causes, intentions, by race and ethnicity, age. The picture for this post is of general firearms deaths, red being the highest, blue the lowest.

One of his many genius moments was to seek a restraining order against the police to prevent them from hurting him when he used “deadly force” to prevent “innocent life” at an abortion clinic in Houston - because he’s a law student, I guess.
Here’s his bona-fide crazy personal web page: http://erlyndon.com/default.aspx

The FCC suffered a blow and Comcast a win in the fight to keep access to the internet free and unfettered. Glenn Beck would have you believe that this is a fight between free enterprise and Communism. Indeed instead this is a fight between Democracy and Totalitarian Corporatism.

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